Noun

1 neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of
material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at
the front; "he stood in front of the mirror tightening his
necktie"; "he wore a vest and tie" [syn: necktie]

2 a social or business relationship; "a valuable
financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with
other members of the team"; "many close associations with England"
[syn: affiliation,
association,
tie-up]

3 the finish of a contest in which the score is
tied and the winner is undecided; "the game ended in a draw";
"their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie" [syn: draw, standoff]

4 a horizontal beam used to prevent two other
structural members from spreading apart or separating; "he nailed
the rafters together with a tie beam" [syn: tie beam]

5 a fastener that serves to join or link; "the
walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar
during construction" [syn: link, linkup, tie-in]

6 equality of score in a contest

7 (music) a slur over two notes of the same
pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their
combined time value

8 one of the cross braces that support the rails
on a railway track; "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper"
[syn: railroad
tie, crosstie,
sleeper]

9 a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with
which something is tied; "he needed a tie for the packages"

Verb

1 fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord;
"They tied their victim to the chair" [syn: bind] [ant: untie]

2 finish a game with an equal number of points,
goals, etc.; "The teams drew a tie" [syn: draw]

Danish

Verb

Esperanto

Etymology

Correlative

As with other demonstrative correlatives in Esperanto, tie can be combined with ĉi, the adverbial
particle of proximity, or with for, the adverbial particle of
distance. Tie ĉi thus means here and tie for means there [in the
distance].

Related terms

Finnish

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Mandarin

Pinyin syllable

tie

A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters
properly represented as having one of four tones, tiē, tié, tiě, or tiè.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often
fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed
in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the
appropriate indication of tone.